tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3410387772840321888.post6660984807694735359..comments2023-10-03T11:28:42.397-04:00Comments on Badass Teachers Association Blog: BadassTeacher Associationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06249079678877556839noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3410387772840321888.post-53338955889244745162014-03-07T01:31:13.656-05:002014-03-07T01:31:13.656-05:00Retention is destructive because the idea that chi...Retention is destructive because the idea that children should be grouped together by age and packed into school-box rooms and then marched along together to all retain the same things at the same time is a dumb idea. The idea takes the emphasis off learning and make it appear to be a socializing program and I believe it also promotes bullying. With the proliferation of computers with internet capacity and of computerized learning programs, teachers should come out of these old brick and mortar 'prisons' where they await child-mobs to arrive each day and have a more flexible system where children come and go according to some education plan they have worked out with parents and counselors. Children , to survive in the future knowledge-dependent world have to learn how to find where the information they want is (which teacher) and then how to get the most out of each connection. If students come to a teacher with a purpose taken from their playbook, discipline problems will disappear and they will be learning how to learn and what to do with what they learn.<br />Just saying ...sixtiessmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16690402553239759342noreply@blogger.com